Tanzania’s Diamond Platnumz has been on the rise for a little while now, but it appears he is ready to really rise to a global level, and perhaps outshine his West African counterparts for the race to win a Grammy, and make contemporary African music truly global. How is this possible? It appears one man, …
AML 083: #OneAfricaMusicFest — The Unstoppable Rise of Afrobeat Music in America
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On July 22nd, 2016, 15,000+ people mostly of African and Caribbean heritage gathered at The One Africa Music Fest, held at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, to make history. It was the first time that an African musical festival took place on such grand scale; and it comes on the heels of what is a resurgence of …